Dear Pyongyang (ディア ピョンヤン), Yang Yong hi, 2006

The filmmaker, Yonghi Yang, is a secondgeneration Korean born and raised in Japan. She was raised by parents who dedicated their lives to their home country of North Korea as activist leaders of the General Association of Korean Residents. Her three brothers returned to North Korea more than thirty years ago. They still live in Pyongyang, and thus her family is dispersed. We accompany Yang and her parents on a visit to North Korea, where they are all too briefly reunited with the rest of their family. Yang, who is fiercely independent, has trouble accepting her parents choices and seeks to understand the reasons behind their sacrifice through the making of this film. While confronting her father s death, the father and daughter begin to develop a powerful new bond, and we are witness, finally, to a growing acceptance between parents and child of each others differences and choices in life whether fully understood or not.